Superhero films are notorious for having deleted scenes.
Typically when you’re filming an adaptation of something with tons and tons of source
material, but working within a reasonable theatrical run time limit, you’re bound
to get lots of scenes tossed out and left on the cutting room floor.
Or rather, buried away forever on a hard drive.
It’s the digital age, people.
That being said, some of these deleted scenes make it into special features or DVD extras,
but these days, more and more rumours keep coming out about how certain scenes from certain
films have been hidden away forever, and, mostly for good reasons, will never see the
light of day.
So today, we’re diving into some of those mysteries with our list of the top 10 deleted
superhero movie scenes you weren’t supposed to see.
And probably never will.
Get ready
to be disappointed, friends.
10 Web Shooters If you’re a big Spider-Man fan, you were
probably a little bummed by the way the character’s webs were represented in the first series
of Spider-Man films by Sam Raimi starring Toby McGuire.
So in the comics, Peter Parker’s webs come from web shooters that he wears on his wrists.
In the film adaptation, the webs are organic – an idea the director was originally suggested
by his peer, James Cameron.
As you can imagine, that didn’t bode well with fans.
Which was a predicted reaction of Raimi’s – he had actually filmed a different version
of them, with Peter wearing web shooters.
The shot appeared in an early sizzle cut of the film seemingly for test audiences.
But at the end of the day, the organic ones stuck, and the footage hasn’t been seen
since.
9 Loki Hallucination Age of Ultron Considering how the MCU likes to jam pack
heroes and villains into all of their films, it may have come as a bit of a surprise to
some to see that Loki was absent in the Avengers Age of Ultron film.
Especially considering that between Thor The Dark World and Thor Ragnarok, he was MIA.
But turns out he was suppose to show up in Age of Ultron – as a hallucination of Thor’s.
This was revealed by Idris Elba.
Turns out the reason why it was cut was due to it muddying up the narrative, and giving
away too much information that would later spoil part of the plot (and his appearance)
in Ragnarok.
8 The Bat Trance Actors all have different processes when approaching
a character.
Some, like Daniel Day Lewis, choose to go full method.
Others, like Michael Keaton, have little tricks that they incorporate into the character to
get them to where they need to be, performance wise.
In Tim Burton’s Batman, the first 1989 film of that franchise, Keaton played the title
role, and approached playing Bruce Wayne and his costumed counterpart as almost different
characters.
To get into the character of Batman, he did something that’s been called going into
the ‘Bat Trance’ – a state of mind that helped him transition between the two.
While Burton decided to film this process, it never made it into the final film, with
many believing that it felt redundant since Keaton’s performance as Bruce and Bats varied
enough to begin with.
7 Sultry Stares Guardians of the Galaxy I think by this point, EVERYONE wants Starlord
and Gamora to get their freak on.
Their sexual tension is palatable.
And everyone knows it’s eventually gonna happen.
So perhaps it’s not the end of the world that this little exchange between these two
Guardians of the Galaxy characters was axed.
Director James Gunn told Vulture about the scene, which was initially included in pre-released
material, and was intended to be a montage after the prison break sequence.
Gunn stated that despite adoring it, he was forced to cut it because of music rights for
the track being used under it.
He’s also admitted that he’s not sure why another song didn’t replace it, and
that it was his favourite moment from the film that was cut.
6 Burning Alive Despite Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy
being considered the darkest live action adaptation the hero has had to date, turns out there’s
still subject matter within the films’ initial cuts that had to be removed because they were
just ‘too much’.
This particular scene falls into that category.
If you recall in the Dark Knight, there’s a scene in which Heath Ledger’s Joker sets
a massive pile of mob money on fire.
Turns out that they filmed a shot of the scene with the accountant Lau tied up on top of
the pile, burning alive.
Yeah, I can see why that was cut, considering the film was PG 13.
5 Bane’s Origins Taking a look at another film from that Nolan
trilogy at this number.
In the Dark Knight Rises, we’re given a minimal amount of backstory concerning Tom
Hardy’s Bane in the theatrical release of the film – we get to see him in the Pit,
but there wasn’t much explanation behind his mask or his other features.
After the release, the film’s costume designer Lindy Hemming revealed that there was in fact
a scene captured to explain Bane’s physical deformities and more of what he experienced
while in the pit, but inevitably, it was cut.
The reason why it was axed was because Nolan thought the scene was extraneous, and didn’t
add anything unique to the polished product.
4 Riddler Gets Rowdy The initial Batman films were pretty PG – I
mean, they had to be, considering the mass marketing at franchises like McDonalds, and
all of the toys that were released alongside the movies.
They were aimed at a large demographic, including younger audiences.
So when Jim Carrey’s Edward Nigma aka The Riddler beat the crap out of a guard with
his cane, well, it made sense that it got removed from the final cut, and the DVD’s
special features.
In the film, there’s a scene where Tommy Lee Jones’ Two Face tries to teach the Riddler
how to punch, except he isn’t able to knock out his target – the guard in question.
3 Harley Wedding Dress After Suicide Squad was released, rumours
spread quickly online about all of the deleted scenes missing from the final film.
While we’ll be touching on that again shortly, this number in particular deals with a behind
the scenes image that was leaked and published in a Chinese magazine called China Times.
The picture features Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn in a wedding dress.
A very Harley inspired wedding dress, that is.
Fans have speculated that this scene would have been a part of her backstory, detailing
the toxic relationship between her and the Joker.
2 Quicksilver Lives One of the more painful moments in The Avengers:
Age of Ultron is when Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Quicksilver dies heroically during battle,
saving Hawkeye and a civilian boy in the process by shielding them from bullets with his own
body.
Turns out that during production of the film, this fate for the speedster was actually up
in the air.
Director Joss Whedon really wanted to meaningfully kill off a character in the film’s final
battle, since, as the rumours go, he was denied that creative freedom in the first Avengers
film.
This time around, Marvel was much more open to it – a fact that was revealed AFTER he
filmed two alternate endings – one in which Quicksilver lives, and another in which he
dies, the latter being what made the final cut.
In the version where he lives, the character’s rapid healing ability would have justified
his survival after protecting Hawkeye and the boy.
1 Joker Scenes While it seems that aside from that one reddit
user who threatened to sue Warner Bros for not releasing the Suicide Squad scenes that
appeared in some of the film’s earlier trailers, most people have forgotten about the controversy
surrounding the deleted scenes from the Suicide Squad film.
After its release, Jared Leto made a big deal about ‘missing scenes’ that would have
added a lot more to his Joker character – a performance that was generally panned by fans
and critics alike.
He raved in interviews that many scenes had been cut from the film, not just his own,
and even morbidly joked that if he died in the near future, that would be the only way
those scenes would be leaked.
But hey, at least he was front and center for the Skrillex Rick Ross music video.
There we have it!
Which of these scenes would you have wanted to see in the final films?
What scenes do you think may eventually come out of the wood work one day?
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